The European Commission is holding talks with Hungarian authorities on how large a fine Hungary will have to pay for serious irregularities in awarding EU-funded public procurement contracts to public lighting company Elios, anonymous sources told Népszava.

The European Commission’s draft 2021- 2027 EU budget, which will be released in May, plans to shift EU cohesion funding away from central and eastern Europe, to countries hit harder by the financial crisis, the Financial Times said.

Political scientist Zoltán Kiszelly told public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió that Jobbik was still far behind the ruling Fidesz party and failed to narrow the gap while the left had not managed to cast off eight years of divisions.

Hungary’s economy has become increasingly vulnerable and fragile, yet the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and his government are stealing EU funds, Bernadett Szél, the opposition LMP party’s prime ministerial candidate, said on Friday.

Fidesz-KDNP has again boycotted parliament’s national security committee meeting. This is the fourth time the committee has not made quorum. Fidesz’s Szilárd Németh, the committee deputy chair, has boycotted the meetings on grounds that he believes Politics Can Be Different (LMP) committee member Bernadett Szél to be an agent of financier George Soros.

Without EU funds, Viktor Orbán would not be Hungary’s prime minister today, the prime ministerial candidate of the opposition Socialist-Párbeszéd alliance said at a conference organised by the Foundation for a Liberal Hungary.

You may recall that Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in his keynote address at the 37th session of the Human Rights Council, called Viktor Orbán a xenophobe and a racist because the Hungarian prime minister declared earlier that “we do not want our color … to be mixed in the others.”

The European Commission is holding talks with Hungarian authorities on how large a fine Hungary will have to pay for serious irregularities in awarding EU-funded public procurement contracts to public lighting company Elios, anonymous sources told Népszava.

The European Commission’s draft 2021- 2027 EU budget, which will be released in May, plans to shift EU cohesion funding away from central and eastern Europe, to countries hit harder by the financial crisis, the Financial Times said.

Political scientist Zoltán Kiszelly told public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió that Jobbik was still far behind the ruling Fidesz party and failed to narrow the gap while the left had not managed to cast off eight years of divisions.

Hungary’s economy has become increasingly vulnerable and fragile, yet the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and his government are stealing EU funds, Bernadett Szél, the opposition LMP party’s prime ministerial candidate, said on Friday.

Fidesz-KDNP has again boycotted parliament’s national security committee meeting. This is the fourth time the committee has not made quorum. Fidesz’s Szilárd Németh, the committee deputy chair, has boycotted the meetings on grounds that he believes Politics Can Be Different (LMP) committee member Bernadett Szél to be an agent of financier George Soros.

Without EU funds, Viktor Orbán would not be Hungary’s prime minister today, the prime ministerial candidate of the opposition Socialist-Párbeszéd alliance said at a conference organised by the Foundation for a Liberal Hungary.

You may recall that Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in his keynote address at the 37th session of the Human Rights Council, called Viktor Orbán a xenophobe and a racist because the Hungarian prime minister declared earlier that “we do not want our color … to be mixed in the others.”

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